Time budget as related to feeding tactics of European polecat Mustela putorius

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-18

  Lodé, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

Feeding tactics; Mustela putorius; Polecat; Time budget

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CARNIVORE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ARTICLE; BUDGET; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TIME; WINTER;

FRANCE;

MUSTELA PUTORIUS;

EID: 0032879687     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00043-1     Document Type: Article

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